The HRC military policy frame will have to be streamlining the MIC to support the prosecution of "Crimes Against Humanity", strengthening alliances to ensure global peacekeeping that is proportional to economic interests and put idiots like Putin in his place. Her administration's policy will need iron fists and velvet gloves
She needs a cadre of supportive military as some did for PBO to come forward and take a stand, beyond dragging Wes Clark out, and she should even take a principled position on TPP to distance herself from Bubba's deregulatory neoliberalism and make climate policy even more clearly a national security issue, one more careful than her vote for the 2002 AUMF
What will her formula for the optimal mix of "diplomacy, development and defense" since for example drone policy is a permanent feature of the MIC. If she returns to the "terror" rather than the "violent extremism" meme on the stump she will signal a difficult time for many Democrats already suspicious of a US military policy that uses the 99% to serve the 1%
...she’s likely to emphasize the more dovish aspects of her record—including her public diplomacy to repair America’s international image, her focus on building ties in Asia, and her attention to women’s rights and development issues....
Recent comparisons of Secretary of State John Kerry’s frenetic globe-trotting to Clinton’s arguably modest diplomatic achievements have tended to overlook this less visible aspect of her tenure. But no assessment of her time in Obama’s administration would be complete without noting the way Clinton hewed to the liberal hawk philosophy she adopted during her husband’s presidency in the 1990s, and which contributed, less happily, to her 2002 vote to authorize force against Iraq. “The Democratic party has two wings—a pacifist wing and a Scoop Jackson wing. And I think she is clearly in the Scoop Jackson wing,” says former Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman, now director of the Wilson Center. (Jackson, a Cold War-era Democratic Senator from Washington state, mixed progressive domestic politics with staunch anti-communism, support for a strong military, and backing for the Vietnam War.)
Clinton’s allies resist the word “hawk,” and say a focus on military power doesn’t do justice to her fuller record. “You can’t really pigeonhole her,” says Clinton’s press secretary, Nick Merrill. “She was pragmatic, and wasn’t afraid to use the tools in our proverbial toolbox, as long as it was part of a larger strategy. Her approach was always that diplomacy, development and defense were only effective if used together.”